>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Brown <broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk> writes:
Mark> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 07:30:18PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson
Mark> wrote:
>> How is the Debian GNU/Linux Beowulf system going? Have any
>> README's been written, any FAQ created?
Mark> Not visibly, although a lot of your questions would probably
Mark> be answered by the more generic HOWTOs and things. (Is
Mark> someone working on the website?)
>> What do one need (package wise, kernel patches)? It's been
>> about 7 months since I last checked this, and then it wasn't
>> very mature, and I didn't have time to play around...
Mark> All you really need to dip your toe in the water is some
Mark> networked computers. Write some software which distributes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mark> some work over them and there we are (or use some of the
Mark> examples...).
Now that's the problem. I don't have time for that... I have barely
time to read my emails :)
If wanted to distribute the load of a mail system, ie instead of buying
one big, expensive SUN (= mucho dinero), I could start out with say 5
'smaller' PC's (say double 450's) and then use a cluster to 'pretend'
that it's one machine.
One alternative would be like many big sites do, mail1.xxx.org, mail2.xxx.org
mail3.xxx.org etc, etc adfinitum. I hate that! It's ugly and ... well, I
don't want it.
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